Meet the people who create Cuba’s celebrated cigars as you observe the process in the tobacco fields and workshops of the Viñales Valley


CUBAN CIGARS, FARM TO


5. AGRICULTURE IN PINAR DEL RÍO & VIÑALES


Managing Cuba’s land, water and other natural resources more effectively through agrarian reform, conservation, entrepreneurship and other initiatives is the focus of our People-to-People cultural exchange in the Cuban countryside today. First, travel outside Havana to rural Pinar del Río for a demonstration of and discussion about the process of producing Cuba’s most famous product – Cuban cigars – at a cigar factory. Continue on across the countryside to the tobacco fields of the Viñales Valley, where you’ll talk to agricultural workers about agrarian life in today’s Cuba. After lunch in a restaurant set among the mogotes (imposing, steep-sided limestone hills) rising up from the valley floor, meet the workers who process tobacco leaves before they reach the cigar factory at El Despalillo. Return to Havana for dinner at your leisure this evening at the hotel. Meals BLD


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FACTORY... Traditionally, premium high- quality cigars have always been rolled by hand, indicated by the phrases totalmente a mano (totally by hand) or hecho a mano (made by hand). Hand-rolled Cuban cigars are renowned as among the best in the world –


and during your People-to-People travel in Cuba, you’ll take a close look at some of the key processes involved in the production of the country’s iconic export. You’ll also have an opportunity to meet and talk with Cubans involved in the various phases of Cuban cigar production – from growers in the Viñales Valley tobacco fields... to the skilled workers who perform the despalillo (stripping) and rezagado (grading) of the tobacco before it reaches the factory... to the highly experienced master rollers who display their skills at a cigar factory in Pinar del Río.


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